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Delaying Retirement Lowers Risk of Alzheimer's,Time:July 17th,2013
延遲退休可以降低患老年癡呆的風險,2013年7月17日
People who delay retirement have less risk of developing Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia, a study of nearly half a million people in France found.
法國研究了近50萬人發現，延遲退休會降低患老年癡呆癥和其他類型癡呆癥的風險。
It's by far the largest study to look at this, and researchers say the conclusion makes sense.
這是迄今為止規模最大的研究，研究人員表示這一結論是有意義的。
Working tends to keep people physically active, socially connected and mentally challenged—all things known to help prevent mental decline.
工作能使人保持體力。社交和精神方面的活動，這些有助于防止智力下降。
"For each additional year of work, the risk of getting dementia is reduced by 3.2 percent." said Carole Dufouil, a scientist at INSERM, the French government's health research agency.
法國政府健康研究機構INSERM的科學家Carole Dufouil說：“每多工作一年，患癡呆癥的風險下降3.2%。”
About 35 million people worldwide have dementia, and Alzheimer's is the most common type.
全世界大約有3500萬人患有癡呆，阿爾茨海默病是最常見的一種。
In the U. S.,about 5 million have Alzheimer's—1 in 9 people aged 65 and over.
在美國，約有500萬人患阿爾茨海默病，其中1/9的患者是65歲以上的人。
What causes the mind-robbing disease isn't known and there is no cure or any treatments that slow its progression.
是什么導致老年癡呆還不得而知，目前還沒有可以治愈或延緩其發展速度的治療方法。
Researchers used these records on more than 429000 workers, most of whom were shopkeepers or craftsmen such as baker and woodworkers.
研究人員在42.9萬名工人身上追蹤調查，這些工人大多是面包店里的面包師或木匠。
They were 74 on average and had been retired for an average of 12 years.
平均年齡74歲，平均已退休時間是12年。
Nearly 3 percent had developed dementia but the risk of this was lower for each year of age at retirement.
他們中有近3%的人患了癡呆癥，但這一比例要比那些一到年齡就退休的人患病的概率低多了。
Someone who retired at 65 had about a 15 percent lower risk of developing dementia compared to someone retiring at 60, after other factors that affect those odds were taken into account, Dufouil said.Thank you.
Dufouil說，在考慮其他影響因素的情況下，65歲退休的人要比60歲退休的人患癡呆癥的概率低15%。謝謝。
